LINGUIST List 11.664

Thu Mar 23 2000

Qs: Jakobson Reference, Sonorant Devoicing

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Dear List Members-
I have been unable to locate a reference to an article by Jakobson in
which he discusses languages which use only a small number of their
phonemes for expression of inflectional categories.
Thanks in advance for any leads.
Dawn Nordquist
Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico
nordquisunm.edu

Dear list subscribers,
I am currently working on sonorant devoicing in obstruent-sonorant
clusters in French. I was wondering whether anybody could point
me to additional sources of data and/or secondary literature about the
phenomenon. My main sources so far are: Dell 1980, Casagrande 1984, Nyrop
1963, and Delattre.
I will post a summary, if I can gather enough references.
Heike Lehnert
Department of Linguistics
SUNY Buffalo